1965-1966 Henry D. Moon, USA

Henry
D. Moon

1914-1974

IAP President 1965-1966

Henry Moon graduated from the University of California,
Berkeley, California in 1940. From 1953-1974 he was Professor of Pathology and
Chairman of the Department at the University of California School of Medicine,
San Francisco, California. Henry was an expert on forensic and endocrine
pathology. Before he received his MD degree, he published 10 papers. This
research helped contribute to the final isolation of ACTH. In all, he published
95 papers. He was President of a number
of societies including the American Association of Pathologists and
Bacteriologists. Two of his public
service assignments were in the capacity of Visiting Professor to the USSR and
Korea. In Seoul, Syngman Rhee, the first President of the Republic of Korea received
him affectionately because at the turn of the century, he and Henry’s father
had migratedto the US to escape oppression at home. Together they had helped
organize the exiled Koreans and raise money for the revolutionary cause. When
Henry had completed his official duties in Seoul, he was able to make contact with
relatives who presented him with genealogy tables of the Moon family going back
several centuries, and they showed him some graves of his ancestors.